nastang87xx
Well-Known Member
Love that gif.
Sponsored
Love that gif.
thank you for your sanity!The debris in the pan is almost certainly from the broken rod banging around in the block and chewing up the bearings. It's exceedingly unlikely that the debris is the cause of the broken rod.
I highly doubt changing oil early and often would prevent his kind of failure.
Have you read everything and every link in the GT350 Basics sticky?Thank you! Of course I would follow said manual when the car arrives (week 3 of waiting for a VIN) but was just wondering if there was any sage advice for a noob
I thought I had.... was not finding it so I thought I would reach out to the community....Have you read everything and every link in the GT350 Basics sticky?
So basically 100miles of light canyon carving (no pedal mashing).While I agree with those saying just read the manual, I think it's worth clarifying a bit since you will read a lot of crazy stuff on here, including everyone's special and unique interpretations of what the manual says, when it really doesn't say a whole lot. Let's quickly review:
In the manual:
-vary your engine speed
-avoid extended wide open throttle maneuvers
Not in the manual:
-Limiting RPMs
-avoiding wide open throttle entirely, for even short periods of time
-driving it like a hoveround
-putting the car on casters and pushing it to your local cars and coffee just to be safe
***You can bet your first born that if the engineers and warranty bean counters at Ford thought anything else was bad for your engine during break-in they would have said so, these are the same people that feel the need to warn you not to adjust the steering wheel while driving, and dedicate two entire pages to checking your coolant, their job is to assume we're all knuckle-dragging idiots***
And after 100 miles just avoid trackdays, that's it. That's the break-in procedure.
Your only job during break-in is to seat the piston rings. This is a race engine. Use the rev range, accelerate and decelerate frequently.
I found that setting the car to sport helped with break-in, because normal mode feels more like an automatic, the car doesn't slow down much at all off-throttle without using the brakes.
Really the only other important thing to remember, which applies all the time: always wait for the oil to hit normal operating temps, around 200 before pushing the engine! Luckily you will have a handy gauge for that right smack in the middle of the dash.
Your spot on on the voodoo but get ready to get slammed on here since this is a GT350 forum and you have a GT.If Ford was really worried about the break in redline issue, they would put a limiter on it at 6000rpm and tell you to come back to the dealer for a first service at 1000miles like all the big dog euro bike manufacturers do. The reality is the gt350 is an oddball engine and i don’t think Ford has ever really got its production down right, don’t kid yourself this isn’t gt3 levels of screw up but They really should of fixed these issues by 2017 MY. Why is oil consumption still an issue and why is it acceptable at all. Even hardcore racing engines don’t use 1 quart in 1000 miles unless raced. Why are we still having random engines failure and nobody has a clue as too why
This all tells you that the gt350 is the last of its breed and it’s really sad because nothing would make me happier then Ford go nuts and make a real sequel engine with DI, real twin manifolds, higher compression. But it’ll never happen
i haven’t had a mustang in years lmfaoYour spot on on the voodoo but get ready to get slammed on here since this is a GT350 forum and you have a GT.
So why are you hanging around here?i haven’t had a mustang in years lmfao
Then why does it say 2015 Mustang GT under vehicles?At least I did have both a 16 and 17 Shelby GT 350 new.i haven’t had a mustang in years lmfao
Old account and this forum is actually always got good content.Then why does it say 2015 Mustang GT under vehicles?At least I did have both a 16 and 17 Shelby GT 350 new.